Wednesday, May 9, 2012

How God Makes Beautiful People

“The most
beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known
suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the
depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding
of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen.”

~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

And who said there was no purpose
in defeat, suffering, struggle, or loss?

God might not have created evil,
but our Lord certainly does convert evil to good, through us, if we’ll endure.

We might suggest that the person who
experiences defeat, suffering, struggles, and is engaged in loss, as of their
status this minute, has a direct road to hope, through faith. God will prove
faithful. He always has been and always will be.

Special Contingents Of Blessing Follow
Horrendous Contingents Of Cursing

By way of misfortune, and of
myriad form are these, those plundered by life’s ruin are selected for a divine
compensation, the likes of which are manifest in the person.

Those that have been through hell,
and gave up not their hope, but insisted on trudging quietly through the miry
clay, despite instances of giving up, have been saved in a very special way.
This is by way of prophecy. We can tell they will be blessed, by their fervent
allegiance to the Lord, because God saves the best spiritual blessing of
discipleship for the humblest.

Those that appear cast down in
life, and cursed by inordinate level and depth, those without common privilege,
will receive the richest of prizes.

And what could this richest prize
look like?

The Making Of A Beautiful Person

Nothing about looks is this about.
But the making of a beautiful person, one shining through from the soul
outward, is the refinery of much ruin.

That person, who has gone through
fathoms of despair, experiences of the abyss, having felt many senses of
abandonment, has had the opposite transformation. From an ugly, self-seeking
imperative, their life’s agenda has turned 180 degrees.

The fruits of compassion, of
gentleness, of an uncommon sensitivity now abound. These are now part of the
person, and they come without effort. They can be seen, later, as predestined
to help others undergoing the most shocking of losses.

Beauty from the inside out is
God’s version of human majesty. The ones with the least money, the least
possessions, and the least provision, with plenty of heartache to boot, are
given special passage through the Holy of Holies. God’s invisible favour rests
on them. And they will be a beautiful blessing to others in need.

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God makes beautiful people through
experiences of defeat, struggle, suffering, and loss. God’s spiritual privilege
does not rest with the rich, prosperous and famous so much as it does with the
least; that person made beautiful through the things they’ve endured for God.